Alcoholism Name: Institution: Alcoholism This refers to the excessive consumption of alcohol. This condition is considered a disease in the medical field. A person suffering from this condition is referred to as an alcoholic. Alcoholics have an incontrollable urge to keep on drinking despite the obvious physical, social and mental problems associated with alcoholism. Physical risk factors associated with alcoholism include damage to the nervous system,
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alcoholism stage are epilepsy, diabetes and delirium tremens. In addition, due to constant drinking, the person may also suffer from liver cirrhosis, heart failure, malnutrition, brain damage, respiratory and fatty liver. Psychological: Alcohol addiction results in some serious psychological symptoms during the late stage. The patient at this time may have dementia and the fact that the person cannot be able to carry out daily operations without alcohol in their system (Rehm 139). As said earlier
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compliment she receives on the nice clothes and accessories she buys. This motivated the increase and desire for additional spending and filled in the time slot in which boredom began to form. This addiction allowed her the ability to escape from problems at home between family members. The addiction of shopping place Charketa in a world of temporary satisfaction, which removes all of the problems, life bring causing sadness. Habits are developed in stages; the habit starts out as a thought
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English 080 A death in all its own Looking at me now, can you see the hell I’ve been through? No you can’t because I know I hide my dance with hell particularly well. You would never think to expect the women you see now ever had a brush with heroin. I’m not even sure I want to tell this story; but it needs to be told. Every person lives through things differently; every person handles different situations in their own way. My story will not be the same as the
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Chemical Use Assessment/History and Treatment Recommendations Shawn Johnson Liberty University Chemical Use Assessment/History and Treatment Recommendations This document serves as a training aid for assessment and treatment recommendations of a patient in the screening process of a treatment facility. Through the process of assessment the following practices will be established:
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St. Therese Of The Child Jesus Kidz Academy 20. Sto. Rosario St., Karuhatan Valenzuela City Effects Of Cigarette Addiction in The Selected Secondary Students of St.Therese of The Child Jesus Kidz Academy Researchers: Bacalangco, John Lorenz P. Dinampo, Ian Howell Steven S. Geronimo, Genesis D. Kistadio, Leigh Marrione P. Javate, Jonathan Clyde G. Madrid, Vincent Alaine A. Submitted to: Ms. Cidro,Josephen P. English Teacher 2015 Chapter I Introduction Acording
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Research Paper English 1102-611 13 October 2015 Dream Song 14- John Berryman John Berryman lived a life full of demons. He is viewed as a very cynical, disturbed man who reflected his attitude into his writing. From the beginning of his life he faced emotional distress ranging from family issues, to marriage issues, to substance abuse. A
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syndrome or FAS. FAS is can cause long term or even lifelong problems for the child effected. The second article I read was about vicodin addiction and how it affected people. Vicodin addiction has just recently been becoming more and more common with even more people living in denial but there are ways to kick the addiction. The reason that most people with the addiction don’t think that they have a problem with vicodin is because it’s prescribed and given by doctors. Many addicts of the drug obsess on
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The Deadly Affect Alcoholism had a major affect on the life of the famous director/comedian Sherman Alexie. He grew up in a family that was addicted to alcohol, so he has always had a good understanding of how alcohol can affect a person and others around them. He put this knowledge into film in the 1990’s movie Smoke Signals. Statistically 58% of deaths are alcohol related. Alcohol has an affect on the lives of everyone. When it is consumed, people tend to do a lot of things they would never
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system) create a sense of well-being. Through classic conditioning (Lewis, 2009), the brain becomes accustomed to the activity of smoking, which becomes a dependency in stressful situations. However, the boosting effects of nicotine become an addiction, where the body can become completely addicted, driving the person to be motivated to
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